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by Semaphor 4531 days ago
> But it's still a highly addictive substance

I'd call it slightly addictive. It seems it only becomes highly addictive in concert with other ingredients of tobacco smoke, at least that's what the German Wikipedia [1] has and it references [2,3,4,5,6,7] (I didn't read those myself as I can't say I understand their terminology)

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotin

[2] http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v30/n4/full/1300586a.html

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9089846

[4] http://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_la...

[5] http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/1/75.short

[6] http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v31/n8/full/1300987a.html

[7] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53018/